Richard Kramer

Richard Kramer (born April 21, 1895 in Küdow , Ruppin district , † January 28, 1974 in Nümbrecht ) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Life

Kramer was a farmer in Miersdorf-Wüstemark . He became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was later a functionary of its Berlin-Brandenburg district leadership. In April 1932 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament in the constituency of Frankfurt (Oder) .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Kramer lived illegally in Berlin , Bitterfeld and Halle (Saale) from February 28, 1933 to July 31, 1933 and took part in the communist resistance struggle against National Socialism . He was arrested on August 1, 1933 and was held in so-called “ protective custody ” in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison and in the Brandenburg-Görden prison until mid-April 1934 . At the end of November 1934 Kramer was arrested again and was imprisoned in Königs Wusterhausen until the end of January 1937 . From August to November 1940 he was imprisoned in Potsdam . In August 1944 he was arrested again as part of the “ Aktion Gewitter ” and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He was released in December 1944.

After the Second World War , Kramer lived in West Germany. He no longer emerged politically. Kramer died in 1974 in Nümbrecht in Oberberg .

literature

• Werner Bethge (Red.): Bright stars in a dark night. Studies on the anti-fascist resistance struggle in the Potsdam administrative region 1933–1945 . Potsdam district management of the SED, Commission for Research into the History of the Labor Movement, Potsdam District Committee of the Antifascist Resistance Fighters, Potsdam 1988, pp. 22, 68 and 295.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume 12 [Second Supplementary Volume, K – Z]. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89626-368-4 , p. 78.
• Kramer, Richard . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 490.